Four teens facing charges after allegedly torturing boy

katu.com ^ | 02/18/2014 | Colin Miner

[massmike]

Drugs and ignorance is not a good combination.

That's the conclusion of several law enforcement sources after looking into the case of four teenagers facing kidnapping and assault charges after they allegedly lured another teen to a shed in Southeast Portland and tortured him for several hours.

Those under arrest are three boys and a girl. The youngest is 14. Two of them are 15 and one is 17. They were arraigned Tuesday, and the grand jury started hearing the case on Thursday.

The 14-year-old is described as the ring-leader.

The target of the teens is a 14-year-old that they perceived as a bully. Sources say that the teens targeted their victim in what they believed would be an act of revenge.

How was he a bully?

Sources say that the attackers were upset because their victim called another student "gay" on Facebook.

[a fool in paradise]

So this was an anti-anti-gay hate crime?

[GeronL]

These kids need to be punished to the point where they understand that what they did was 1000x worse than calling someone “gay” on a website.

Of course I expect some leftists to applaud these kids

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sick savages. I hope the three older ones get twenty years. As for the youngest, we’ll have to settle for him getting out at 21, since he was charged as a juvenile.

[Darren McCarty]

I've called people "gay" before as an insult. I've called people homos and fags. I've been called "gay" before as an insult, along with "homo" and "fag" and other things more graphic that I can't repeat here, but if you saw the movie Slap Shot you'll get the picture. It was a very common thing growing up. It went both ways. We got over it. We didn't bully people, nor tolerate bullying where the penalty was a fist to the face.

I didn't torture someone for hours and beat someone with a crowbar and shoot someone with a pellet gun over being called "gay". The worst that happened was a one on one scrap, but that was because we settled things like men and not like punks.

This group of trash needs to rot in adult prison.